 Hi, I'm Chris Thompson for Investor Intel and today I'm with Marty Weems. He was the North American president of American Rare Earths ticker symbol on the Australian exchange is ARR But it also trades on the OTC under the ticker ARRNF. How are you today, Marty? Hey, I'm doing great. Thanks for having me today, Chris. Great. So America Rare Earths focuses on Rare Earths, which has been quite in the news these days especially in North America and as governments look to secure domestic supplies, maybe you can just sort of cover off what's going on in the US where your operations are. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Chris. I appreciate that. Thanks for covering this sector so well. You know, this sector remains strong. Your audience knows that. You know that significant tailwinds. There's continuing pressure to develop supply chains outside of China and rising raw materials prices. So we're seeing consistent accelerating market pull and government push and that's that's a really fantastic motivator for us to deploy, you know, capital as a really well funded mineral explorer. Yeah. And so for people who may not know, the Rare Earths are key these days and often they're called either critical metals or technical metals, technology metals because they're used in a lot of the new new electronics as well as the electric vehicles. Maybe you could just briefly touch on, you know, sort of the key industries that are demanding these minerals. Yeah. So the big consumers at the moment and, you know, in all of predictive models that I've looked at are certainly electric motors, the electric traction motors in electric vehicles and also offshore windmills and then refrigeration be that air conditioning or, you know, actual refrigeration units in the motors therein. So those are the big volume and accelerating consumers, but they're used in a wide variety of technologies and defense industry end-use applications. Yeah. And as I say, it's often called a critical metal because you can't substitute it. So let's talk about a couple of your projects that you have in the US. Your main project is La Paz in Arizona and that's at a resource stage and you've just had some recent news about some work you've done there. Maybe you just touch on that news release. Yeah. So actually a handful of really strong releases over this past probably nine months. It's, you know, seems to have had some substantial impact on our stock price. You know, most notably, you know, less than a year ago at the result of some drilling in 2021, we were able to upgrade our maiden resources in La Paz to over 170 million tons, making it one of the largest in North America as an active project. And while we were doing that drilling in the resource area, we did some exploratory drilling about three kilometers, four kilometers to the southwest. And I believe we may have discovered another substantial ore body. We've now put an exploration target on that that exceeds 700 million tons up to over 900 million tons in grades that are as good or better than the maiden resource area. So we may have a larger big brother next door, which is quite exciting. And then we're actively working on metallurgy, as we speak, that's being done in Perth, Australia by the folks at Nagrum Labs and under the direction of Wood PLC. And we have, you know, we're quite aggressive in our field work, mapping, sampling, and actively drilling both at La Paz Project in Arizona and at the Howlett Creek Project in Wyoming. And the the met work you're doing for your projects, what's the importance of that for investors of getting that from a processing standpoint? You know, that's, that's really important. You know, you have an engineering background, you know, you've, you know, well, you know, what that means. So, you know, industry watching experts, you know, such as yourself and your audience already know that the the key to the company's projects is metallurgy. This is a core part of our ongoing activities. You know, as I mentioned, it includes this work by Nagrum. We've had some previous work by Saskatchewan Research Council with Wood helping us out and they're guiding that traditional mental processing flow sheet, which is all important. Additionally, on that mental processing and metallurgy front, there's collaborative work with various U.S. national laboratories and Elite Research One universities doing cutting edge work on potentially disruptive extraction, separation and purification technologies. We hope to weave several of these discoveries into a new tech stack that's more environmentally friendly, water sparing, high efficiency. And Chris, you know, Thorium is a real thorn inside of the industry. I was going to ask about the nasties. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, especially in Wyoming, our Wyoming project and our Arizona project, our extraordinarily low uranium and thorium content material from Howlett Creek and LaPause have been especially popular with these labs. A few of these labs, very few of these labs, can actually handle radioactive content. So, you know, we make their job easier in many ways. So, we look forward to sharing the results of these relationships in the future. And right now the drilling at LaPause is that you have an existing resource. Are you building upon that? Yeah. So, we have a plan and permit and applications in process for additional drilling in the resource area. But prior to that and actively happening right now is in this new Southwest area that's three, four kilometers to the Southwest. We're actively drilling right now as we speak that's been going on for the past month or so. We expect to wrap that up probably later this month, maybe the early days of next month. We've already sent first loads of that core off to American Assay Labs in Sparks, Nevada. So, you know, we're drilling both in the new area at LaPause as well as we have permits in process to do a pretty robust additional drilling program in the resource area. And how close is the resource to surface? It's exposed at surface. So, it is consistently exposed at surface. There's some areas that have some alluvial cover, but by and large this is consistently exposed at surface. So, this could potentially be an open pit mine then? I would be surprised if it's not. We're operating on the current assumption that it is almost certainly to be. And your Howlett Creek project, it's exciting times there. You've just started your initial drill program and how to news release on that. Maybe just touch on a few of the key points. Yeah, we're really excited about that. You know, Wyoming is a great mining jurisdiction. We have a really exciting collaboration with the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources as they work on the Department of Energy's core CEM or critical minerals projects. So, they've been incredibly supportive and encouraging, been on the property and we collaborate with them and are sharing data with them and they're helping us. So, when we first acquired this, it was less than 75 acres from Zenith Minerals in Australia. They had a nice little discovery, done a little bit of the initial metallurgy work, but I don't think had a complete awareness of just how big it was. Our geologists got in there, really aggressive work. We've been able to negotiate additional exploration leases with the state of Wyoming on state land, which is extraordinarily mining friendly. And then we've also expanded another several thousand acres of Bureau of Land Management mineral areas. So, that property is well over 2,000 acres now from the 75 acres it was when we acquired it. Surface sampling just continues to exceed expectations and that has gotten us motivated to accelerate on our previously planned drilling program, where we're actually doing it a little bit earlier than we originally planned because we're excited by what we see there. And this plan is, I think I read somewhere about nine holes and almost a thousand meters is, and when you think you get the results back on that. Yeah, so that drilling has just started in the last couple of weeks. We're actively still drilling log and core, got two drill rigs on those holes, so they're moving quite quickly. We think we might finish a little bit ahead of schedule there, but labs all over the world are stacked pretty deep in core these days, so it's a little bit of a slower process than we would like. But the lab has told us they'll get to it as quick as they can. We don't expect any extraordinary delays, so given current timing, here we are towards the end of March, I would think by the end of May we'd have data and be looking to make some reports to the market relative to what we're finding in that core. Well, that sounds great. Well, I look forward to watching your progress for this year. The rare earth is definitely a space that I am interested in, and so other investors should be looking at it as well as we try to secure that North American supply of these critical minerals. I just wanted to thank you for your time today. I was speaking with Marty Weems, who was a North American president of American Rare Earths, traded in the Australia exchange under the ticker symbol ARR, and then the US on the OTC market under ARRNF. Thanks, Marty. Yep, thank you, Chris. Bye-bye.